How to hide the menu/tool bar of gvim?

Question

I don\'t have use for the menu and tools bars in gvim on Windows; Can I hide them?

This will give more space to the text area.

Answer 1

I have the following code in my .vimrc : by default the bar is hidden, but if I want to display it I can use F11 to toggle between the two modes.

function! ToggleGUICruft()
  if &guioptions=='i'
    exec('set guioptions=imTrL')
  else
    exec('set guioptions=i')
  endif
endfunction

map  :call ToggleGUICruft()

" by default, hide gui menus
set guioptions=i

Removing mTrl hides the window menu bar, task bar and right scroll bar, it is kind of a Gvim fullscreen mode. See :help guioptions for more information and customization.

PS : it is important to keep i in your guioptions, otherwise the Vim Icon is not displayed in AltTAB and task bar.